Kindergarten department, Nebraska Institute for the Deaf and Dumb

Kindergarten students sit in chairs around a table in this 7 1/2" x 4 1/2" black and white plate. Four teachers, two men and two women, stand in the back of the room. There are large windows along the walls of the classroom, and curtains with stars on them frame the doorway through which the photograph was taken.

Excerpted from "Eleventh Biennial Report of the Nebraska Institute for the Deaf and Dumb for the Years 1897 and 1898" (Omaha: Nebraska Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, 1898), plate on p. [390].

Historical Notes

The school's kindergarten department was established during the time period covered by this biennial report. Further information and statistics can be found in the report. In 1909, the Institute's name was changed to Nebraska School for the Deaf.